Lakeland Village Mom Charged In Deadly House Fire

LAKELAND VILLAGE, CA — A woman who was injured in January during a Lakeland Village house fire that led to the deaths of her two young daughters, grandmother, and family dogs was formally charged Monday with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and nine other serious felonies stemming from the blaze.

Devinn Fisher, 29, of Lakeland Village was charged by the Riverside County District Attorney's Office with three counts of involuntary manslaughter. She was also charged with three counts of wilfull child endangerment, one count of harming an elder dependent adult, four counts of "recklessly and unlawfully" causing a fire that led to great bodily injury, and one count of "recklessly and unlawfully" causing a fire — the nine additional charges include sentence-enhancing allegations.

Fisher, who was arrested Thursday by deputies out of the Lake Elsinore Sheriff's Station, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon. She is being held in lieu of $2 million bail at Southwest Detention Center, according to jail records.

The deadly blaze was reported at 2:45 p.m. January 25 in the 32900 block of Blackwell Boulevard, near Brightman Avenue. Firefighters sent to the home encountered flames in multiple rooms of the single-story residence, with heavy smoke in the attached garage, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department.

The home belonged to Julia Fisher, Devinn Fisher's mother, according to a GoFundMe page established for the family. It's not immediately clear if Julia Fisher was home when the blaze broke out, but two of Devinn's children — a boy, age 2, and a girl, age 1 — were at the residence, along with another minor-aged daughter. Also at the home was Devinn Fisher's grandmother, Phyllis Fisher, and several of Julia Fisher's dogs, according to the page.

The two toddlers died in the blaze. They were identified Monday by the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner's Bureau as Julian Alcaraz-Fisher, 2, and Arya Alcaraz, 1.

Two days after the fire, Phyllis Fisher, 85, died from her injuries at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, the coroner announced Monday.

The other injured daughter survived.

Several of Julia Fisher's dogs also perished in the fire, according to the GoFundMe page.

Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department reported at the time of the blaze that six people were hospitalized.

The sheriff's department did not provide details on what led to Devinn Fisher's arrest or how investigators determined what caused the fire.

According to Riverside County court records, Fisher has been cited for several vehicle code violations and failed to make good on several, but she has no serious criminal offenses in the county.

The GoFundMe page provided accounts of how the blaze impacted the family.

"Devinn was severely burned but as you can imagine that's not what's hurting her the most," a February 2 post on the page read.

A February 27 entry read, "Julia and her family continue to try and stay positive through all of the daily struggles. ... Devinn was able to say a final goodbye to her angel babies Arya and Julian a few days ago. She was able to hold them one last time and speak to them with her whole heart and soul and sing them thier (sic) favorite lullabies."

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